Arcana Caelestia

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: signification of eating, as denoting to be appropriated, see n. 2187, 2343, 3168, 3513. 3596. "And have blessed him, also he shall be blessed"? that hereby is signified that it was conjoined, appears from the signification of being blessed, as denoting to be conjoined, see n. 3504, 3514. 3530, 3565, 3584. How the case is with respect to the appropriation and conjunction of the truth represented by Jacob, may appear from what has been said above; but as these subjects are of such a nature as to transcend the appre- hensionof the natural man, and cannot be seen except in the light in which the rational or internal man is, in which light few at this .day are principled, because few are regenerated, therefore it is better to illustrate them no further, inasmuch as the illustration of things unknown, and such as transcend the apprehension, tends rather to render them obscure than to throw light upon them. Besides, such things ought to be established as a superstructure on the ideas of natural truths, whereby they are to be apprehended, and these also at this day are wanting; and this is the reason why the passages immediately preceding have been explained so briefly, and only as to the internal senso of the expressions. From what has been already said it may appear, what is implied by Isaac's asking venison of his son. that he might.eat ot it, before he blessed nim, and that he dm not bless him till after he had eaten, and thus that after eating followed the blessing of him who made the savoury meat and brought it, as is also evident from Isaac's words spoken her concerning Jacob, he hath brought to me, and I have eaten of all before, thou earnest, and have blessed him, and also he shall be blessed. The reason evidently appears from the internal meaning of the rituals of the ancien...

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